According to Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee, a “strategic underground facility” in southern Lebanon was destroyed using 400 tonnes of explosives.
More than a month into a full-scale conflict, Israel claimed to have destroyed a Hezbollah tunnel using 400 tonnes of explosives, and Lebanese state media reported that the Israeli army dynamited homes in border villages in Lebanon on Saturday.
“The army of the Israeli enemy has since dawn blown up and destroyed houses” in the border village of Adaisseh, according to the official National News Agency.
Additionally, the NNA reported “large explosions” in the border village of Kfar Kila, claiming that columns of smoke rose above the area and that the blasts could be heard throughout the south.
According to Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee, a “strategic underground facility” in southern Lebanon was destroyed using 400 tonnes of explosives.
According to Adraee, the “tunnel” was more than 1.5 kilometres (about a mile) long.
An earthquake warning was issued for a significant portion of Israel after the Israeli military previously reported “the explosion of a large quantity of explosives in Lebanon” that was powerful enough.
A video of massive explosions at the border was released by the Israeli army.
Israeli bombs have targeted homes in border villages on multiple occasions in recent days, according to Lebanese state media.
Channel 12 in Israel showed footage on Friday that seemed to show one of its presenters in the south Lebanon village of Aita al-Shaab, embedded with Israeli troops, detonating a building.
Hezbollah claims to be engaged in close combat with Israeli forces in border villages in Lebanon.
Last year, the two sides started exchanging cross-border fire, but on September 23, Israel intensified its air campaign against Hezbollah strongholds in the eastern Bekaa Valley, the capital Beirut, and south Lebanon, sparking an all-out war.
According to an AFP count of health ministry figures, the war has killed at least 1,615 people in Lebanon; however, the actual number is probably higher because of data gaps.
The International Organisation for Migration estimates that at least 1.3 million people have been displaced by the conflict. According to Lebanese authorities, over 800,000 people have sought safety within Lebanon, while over half a million people—mostly Syrians—have fled to Syria.